Spoke-socket



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S.S.SHBAFFBR.

SPOKE SOCKET.

No. 553,766. v Patented Jan. 28, 1896.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL S. SHEAFFER, OF VEEDERSBURG, INDIANA.-

SPOKE-SOCKET. 0

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 553,766, dated January28, 1896.

Application led June 29, 1895. Serial No. 554,468. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL S. SHEAFFER, of Veedersburg,in the county ofFountain and State of Indiana,have invented a new and useful Improvementin Spoke Adjusters and Clips, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improved spoke adjuster an dclip,by means of which the tires of a wheel can be readily and quicklytightened.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device of thecharacter indicated which is very simple and inexpensive, and can bequickly and easily applied.

The invention consists of the particular construction and arrangement ofparts, as hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference refer tocorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a portion of a' wheel having myimprovement applied. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 of Fig. l. Fig. 3is a side elevation of the improvement showing the clip in full linesbefore it is bent to form and by dotted lines after it has been bent,the felly and tire being in section. Fig. Liis a side elevation of theadj usting-bolt, and Fig. 5 is an invertedplan view of the clip.

A is a socket into which the ends of the spokes h of the wheel B fit. Inthe upper end of the socket is the bolt C, which is provided with thehead c, having the conical upper The bolt C is preferably formed withthe enlarged portion c2 below its head, which fits in the upper end ofthe socket, and the screw-threaded portion of the bolt screws into athreaded bore of the saidsocket, so that by turning the bolt it can bemoved in or out for a purpose hereinafter explained.

The conical upper surface of the bolt iits into a socket d of the clipD, which receives and fits upon the felly h3 of the wheel. The clip Dcan be formed iiat, as shown in Fig. 3,

' and then bent into form when being applied,

so that it will clasp the sides of the felly and fit itmsnugly.

l to receive and iit upon the felly and provided By the above-describedconstruction it will 5o be seen that should the tire become loose it canbe readily tightened by applying a wrench to the head c of the bolt Cand turning it so that the bolt will be moved outward, when the fellywill be forced outward and the tire tightened.

The improvement maybe applied to all the spokes of a wheel or only totwo or more as desired. When the device is applied to all, the spokes,the felly will be left plain-that 6o is,without the enlargements wherethe spokes l usually enter-and the spokes not entering the felly it willnot be weakened thereby nor rendered liable to crack.

The device can be applied to wheels already made or to old ones whosetires have become loose, by simply cutting off the end of oneor morespokes and Vapplying the device as hereinbefore described.

By means of the device also a new spoke canzbe put in the wheel withoutremoving the tire, and by an inexperienced person.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

l. A device of the character described, comprising a socket adapted tofit upon a spoke, a bolt in the upper end of the socket and having aconical upper end, and a clip adapted 8o with a socket to receive theconical end of the bolt, substantially as described.

2. A device of the character described, consisting of a socket adaptedto receive the end of a spoke, a bolt screwing into the upper end of thesocket and provided with a head having a conical upper surface, and withan enlargement below the head, anda clip adapted to fit upon a felly andprovided with a socket to receive the conical end of the head of the 9obolt, substantially as herein shown and described.

. SAMUEL s. SHEAEFER.

Witnesses j f SAMUEL J. LUDLow, FRANCIS E. MCLEAN.

